Shocking discovery during typical surgical procedure.
When surgeons dug into a man’s groin to repair a painless bulge, they made the unexpected discovery of a living, 10-inch-long ...
The New England Journal of Medicine ©2026. During surgery to repair a hernia in a 71-year-old man's right groin, his doctors discovered something unexpected: a tapeworm. The surgeons fished the ...
Warning: An image of a tapeworm appears lower in this article. Rachel Palma said she had long been struggling with insomnia and, when she could sleep, nightmares. She said she had also experienced ...
Editor's note: The following story contains photos of a tapeworm. When doctors at a New York hospital opened a patient's skull they thought she was suffering from a brain tumor, but instead they found ...
A man in Texas is recovering after undergoing a successful surgery to remove a tapeworm from his brain, KXAN-TV in Austin reports. For months, the unidentified man said he "felt off" and experienced ...
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